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Helios127 posted:Quick question. Unless you're running less than 3 GB of RAM (you shouldn't) go with x64.
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Captain Novolin posted:Unless you're running less than 3 GB of RAM (you shouldn't) go with x64. Agreed. The times have changed, 64bit is supported by most everything current and there's no reason not to.
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Helios127 posted:Quick question.
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Captain Novolin posted:Unless you're running less than 3 GB of RAM (you shouldn't) go with x64.
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revolther posted:What AutoCAD, RAM eating world do you live in where under 3 gigs is terrible?
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Jan 2, 2011 12:28
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64 bit. If your computer can do both, why limit yourself to 32 bit?
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Is there any reason not to buy this version from Amazon http://www.amazon.com/Windows-Home-Premium-System-Builder/dp/B002NGJO4M/ref=sr_1_3?s=software&ie=UTF8&qid=1294084724&sr=1-3 *Do they only offer downloads, I'm using it for a future pc build and wouldn't have any previous os installed. Warkak fucked around with this message at 23:03 on Jan 3, 2011 |
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Warkak posted:Is there any reason not to buy this version from Amazon If you or someone you know has a .edu e-mail address, you can get 7 Professional for $65 at theultimatesteal.com. Otherwise, the system builder versions are fine.
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Jan 3, 2011 22:57
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Toast Museum posted:If you or someone you know has a .edu e-mail address, you can get 7 Professional for $65 at theultimatesteal.com. Otherwise, the system builder versions are fine. As an aside, you can also get a free year of Amazon Prime with a .edu email too.
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big mean giraffe posted:As an aside, you can also get a free year of Amazon Prime with a .edu email too. I'm actually taking advantage of this already by planning to build a new pc and getting free shipping on all the items I'll be ordering is great.
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Jan 3, 2011 23:43
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Is there any way to sysprep then ghost windows 7? I have a build that requires 30 of the exact same machine but I really don't want to take 4 hours a piece throwing the same poo poo on every machine.
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Jan 4, 2011 03:59
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I haven't looked into it a ton with 7 specifically, but I'm pretty sure OPK is exactly for this? http://www.microsoft.com/oem/en/downloads/Pages/windows_7_opk.aspx#dl_docs_demos
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The problem is I don't have the OPK and I don't have a MS system builder account to download it from their site. However, I did find another way to do the same thing. I found sysprep in windows 7 is hidden conveniently in c:\windows\system32\sysprep. And I'm using a free program called Macrium Reflect that's getting the job done perfectly.
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Jan 4, 2011 05:40
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How do I get Windows to stop opening my .m4a files with windows media player? I've done the obvious "always open with Winamp" dance, but it doesn't seem to want to stick 
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Treytor posted:How do I get Windows to stop opening my .m4a files with windows media player? I've done the obvious "always open with Winamp" dance, but it doesn't seem to want to stick Three choices: 1) Right click on an .m4a > Open With > Choose Default Program > Select Winamp and make sure that "Always use the selected program to open this type of file" is checked 2) Open Winamp as an administrator (right click, open as administrator), then check the "always open with Winamp". This will be remembered in the future, even when you open it normally 3) Go to "Default Programs" in the control panel (or just type programs in the start menu search) and the click on "Associate a file type or protocol with a program", select .m4a, click change program and select Winamp. Any of the three should work fine.
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Yeah, that's the thing I have done all that obvious stuff. It even lists Winamp under Default Programs in the control panel like I'd expect, but it's still using WMP to open the files when I double click on them...
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Okay, one more question (although its amoot point since I have windows 7 installed already) Does it REALLY matter what edition of windows 7 I have on? I am using Windows 7 Home Premium. I have one for Pro, but they didnt give me a cd key for it. How nice.
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Helios127 posted:Okay, one more question (although its amoot point since I have windows 7 installed already) Unless you plan on joining the computer to a domain (you can't) then not really. Pro also comes with XP mode. Those are the two major differences I can think of.
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rolleyes posted:Unless you plan on joining the computer to a domain (you can't) then not really. Pro also comes with XP mode. Those are the two major differences I can think of. Pro can host remote desktop, and Home Premium can't. I guess third-party options make this a minor point, though.
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rolleyes posted:Unless you plan on joining the computer to a domain (you can't) then not really. Pro also comes with XP mode. Those are the two major differences I can think of. XP mode sounds handy. Are there any third party tools to essentially do this?
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Helios127 posted:XP mode sounds handy. Tons. Virtual Box, VMWare, Microsoft's own Virtual PC
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Toast Museum posted:Pro can host remote desktop, and Home Premium can't. I guess third-party options make this a minor point, though. It is pretty easy to patch Home to allow it to host a remote desktop session. See http://thegreenbutton.com/forums/p/79427/393664.aspx Also allows you to have concurrent RDP sessions, and to enable remote login for accounts with no password (not that I can see why you would want to do that).
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Alright Thanks guys. Gotta hate that feeling of buyers remorse, huh?
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So, this might be way too vague for a simple fix, but I'll give it a shot anyway. Bear with me. My computer died about four months ago - mobo was five years old, PSU was failing and case was falling apart - and sat because I was going overseas and didn't have the money to spend to fix it up. Today I went out and bought a new.. well, everything, except for a videocard (ancient 7800GT) and a HDD I got last year. Put it all together, no dramas, boots up straight into my old installation of Windows XP. Now, here's where it gets interesting. I bought Windows7 Professional pretty cheap while the computer was dead and (obviously) couldn't install it until now, but I did use the disc to install a copy of Win7 on my cousin's laptop. I pop the disc in with XP running and get an error message about the installation disc not being compatible, to install a new version of Windows just reboot, yadda yadda, fair enough. So I reboot and, with disc in tray, it skips straight past any sort of prompt to boot from disc and goes straight back into XP. Got into BIOS, changed the boot order to run from CD first, got the prompt to boot from CDROM, disc spins for about three minutes then pops up with "BOOTMGR is missing. Can't boot from CD." Following the next obvious step, I put my XP disc back in and ran the recovery tool and did a "FIXBOOT" or whatever it is, rebooted again and tried to run off the Win7 disc, it spins for three or four minutes and now gives me "The file is possibly corrupt. The file header checksum does not match the computed checksum." Now I'm stumped. Could this be the old install of XP loving with me? I'm leaning towards the Win7 disc being defective, but I already used it to install Win7 about a month ago. Any obvious fixes, or is my best bet to format and install fresh or with a new copy of Win7? Will installing fresh be a problem when I brought the 'upgrade from XP' version of Win7? Thanks in advance. Apologies for the wall of text. boy undead fucked around with this message at 12:09 on Jan 5, 2011 |
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Jan 5, 2011 12:06
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Just download a Windows 7 image to usb drive and try again
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Factor Mystic posted:Just download a Windows 7 image to usb drive and try again I'm trying this next. I think the major problem might be in trying to install Win7 64 from XP 32, but that doesn't explain how I wasn't able to install from a freshly formatted drive. I guess it's a combination of 64/32bit compatibility and a lovely disc.
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angrynaut posted:I'm trying this next. I think the major problem might be in trying to install Win7 64 from XP 32, but that doesn't explain how I wasn't able to install from a freshly formatted drive. I guess it's a combination of 64/32bit compatibility and a lovely disc. If yu are booting from the DVD, it doesn't matter what version is already installed - you are bypassing that original installation and running straight off the disc. I'd agree with Factor Mystic, you've got a damaged DVD.
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Does anyone have an idea why Windows 7 is shuffling the drive order each reboot? It messes up my VM fileserver setup each reboot.
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Is it possible to disable taskbar thumbnail preview? It gets annoying because I don't ever use the preview. Googling it seems to show that there is no solution to it.
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Vegetable posted:Is it possible to disable taskbar thumbnail preview? It gets annoying because I don't ever use the preview. Googling it seems to show that there is no solution to it. 7 Taskbar Tweaker
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edit: ^^even better. You could use XDN tweaker to change the mouse over time necessary to five seconds so you'd have to hover quite a bit for it to kick in.
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e:nvm
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Capt. Morgan posted:7 Taskbar Tweaker 
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I'm having a hell of a time transferring files from my local machine to a 2008 R2 machine via the network. I drag and drop, and then the copying dialog creates a few files, then hangs on "calculating." I've let it go, and it will stay that way for days at a time (even if I click cancel, it then has to calculate how long it will take to cancel). I can't get it to go away unless I log out and log in again. Any idea what's causing this?
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FISHMANPET posted:I'm having a hell of a time transferring files from my local machine to a 2008 R2 machine via the network. I drag and drop, and then the copying dialog creates a few files, then hangs on "calculating." I've let it go, and it will stay that way for days at a time (even if I click cancel, it then has to calculate how long it will take to cancel). I can't get it to go away unless I log out and log in again. Any idea what's causing this? sounds like your network is not working right, look at NIC drivers, Ethernet cards, and then your switch
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Recently I've deleted everything on my hard drive and reinstalled Windows 7 and everything else. Since then, my computer is being really weird about connecting to the web. I posted this question on the hardware thread with no help, and it probably isn't a hardware problem (I hope) since this issue has only existed after I reinstalled Windows (and probably changed some setting?). When the computer comes on from being shut down or asleep, it will say no internet access. If I remove and reinsert the ethernet cable, ta-da, it works. The problem is I have to remove and reinsert the cable every time the computer comes on, otherwise it does not connect online. And to make things more incovenient, I have to disconnect the cable from the computer itself because the problem remains if I do it at the router. This never happened before and it's quite annoying. Using Verizon Fios for an ISP. Any ideas?
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Rekkit posted:Connectivity issue. Have you gone into the power options and disabled any power management that may be affecting your NIC, as well as gone into Device Manager and disabled "Allow the computer to turn off this device to save power" under Network Adapter?
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Rekkit posted:Recently I've deleted everything on my hard drive and reinstalled Windows 7 and everything else. Since then, my computer is being really weird about connecting to the web. I posted this question on the hardware thread with no help, and it probably isn't a hardware problem (I hope) since this issue has only existed after I reinstalled Windows (and probably changed some setting?). Have you installed anything Apple-related? Because this has all the hallmarks of bloody Bonjour loving everything up, which seems to be it's sole purpose on Windows as Apple can't write Windows services to save their lives. Have a look in the services list and if you see Bonjour in there then disable it.
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Rekkit posted:Recently I've deleted everything on my hard drive and reinstalled Windows 7 and everything else. Since then, my computer is being really weird about connecting to the web. I posted this question on the hardware thread with no help, and it probably isn't a hardware problem (I hope) since this issue has only existed after I reinstalled Windows (and probably changed some setting?).
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I have my HD in multiple partitions and there's an Explorer shortcut pinned to my taskbar with jumplist shortcuts to the different partitions. However, a few days ago, the jumplist disappeared. I tried recreating the Explorer shortcut and the jumplists still exist for my other pinned shortcuts (Firefox, IE, Chrome). Thoughts?
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